I think Jack Gillett is going to come to your house and confiscate your fish if you don't lol. Please stop or go on Ebay now and get yourself a few bargains, how I managed to get my tank and everything I needed. I have mixed everything you are told probably not to mix and did, killed them.īeen there done it so not taking the Mick just laughing because you remind me of me. I have done the million tetras or what ever in an aqua one 320 and caused a tank melt down because I said I would get a bigger tank. I said I would eventually rehouse a goldspot plec but it grew quicker than I could find a tank suitable and had to part with it. Too many things going on at once and you want everything. Have you done anything about the sand problem?Ĭlick to expand.Soz if I was being a bit funny yesterday was drinking a lot of powerade mixed with tons of skittles and what not.Įasy to get carried away and you definitely have a lot of knowledge and potential to be a really good fish keeper and breeder and in the stage I would call my big ideas head. The big rocks in your tank and the tonne of sand takes the water capacity down by maybe half. It might be working at the moment but it wont last.

The males hated each other and when the one was on eggs the other nearly killed him. Believe me mate ive pushed my luck with this sort of thing, A bit different but i kept two pairs of L134, 2 males and 2 females. While they might be relaxed and mellow, the Asian Stone Catfish has some standout looks. The pH balance of the habitat should be around 5.6 and 7.6. They prefer temperatures between 64 and 75 degrees. When breeding two pairs of seperate plecs wont be too kind to each other, and it wont end too well. Hailing from India and Bangladesh, these catfish are found in slow-moving streams. At a push you could seperate a 4 ft in two, but for two pairs not all of them. Dividing a tank into three, from 100cm, will give you just over a foot each one. The Royal Twig Catfish, also called the Giant Whiptail Pleco, is native to clear, flowing streams of the lower lower Magdalena basin in Colombia. Smaller tanks are less stable, and require more water changes. Take a look at the breeding logs, i think there is one on all of your fish. Object Details Keywords Species: unknown,Genus: unknown,Family: Loricariidae,Order: Siluriformes,Class: Actinopterygii,Phylum: Chordata,Kingdom: Animalia,Fish. if kept together they will most likely not breed, but spend time watching each others activity. The bristlenose can actually get quite an agressive pleco, especially a breeding pair. I I chose one of these and focused on that the L134. I have kept bristlenoses, 'baby sat' an L018, and kept clown plecs. To get it clear you have that 2 ft tank with bristlenoses, clown plecs, whiptails and twigs now? In this size tank territories are going to overlap, what needs to be adressed is the fishes well fair. Farlowellas tend to stick to the side of the fish tank and swim slowly. The Royal Farlowella can reach a length of 8 inches, but it is a very thin fish that does not account for the bioload that many thicker fish of a similar length produce.Look, im writing this on benefit of you and your fish. The snout is often as long as an inch the the body is shaped like a twig for camouflage. However, many aquarists keep the Royal Farlowella with their shrimp colonies with no problems. It is possible that larger specimens might eat very small dwarf shrimp, particularly their fry. The Royal Farlowella is very peaceful and is compatible with most other non-aggressive fish and invertebrates. This fish eats constantly, so too much meat/animal protein in its diet can be unhealthy for the fish as well as the level of waste it produces in the aquarium. Occasional meaty foods such as bloodworms are also beneficial when fed very sparingly.

It will also appreciate being fed some fresh vegetables such as shelled peas, spinach, zucchini and cucumber. Feed the Royal Farlowella a diet heavy in vegetable matter, including high-quality vegetable flakes, sinking algae wafers and pellets. The Royal Farlowella will not bother most plants, but it will eat plenty of algae in the aquarium, especially as a juvenile. It is not known to eat wood heavily like some suckermouth catfish (Panaque sp., etc.), but it may benefit from some supplementary wood (or rather the biofilm on driftwood) in its diet. The Royal Farlowella is primarily nocturnal, but will often become active during daytime hours once established in an aquarium with plenty of driftwood, rockwork, and other hiding places. This fish is highly unique with its very thin, twig-like appearance and the “streamer” extensions on its tail. While many suckermouth catfish species have yet to be bred on any major scale in aquariums, the Royal Farlowella has been bred by a few farms. The Royal Farlowella (Sturisoma panamense), also known as the Twig or Whiptail Catfish, is a member of the Loricariidae family of South American suckermouth catfishes.

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